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LORIN C. SPRINGER, OF HYDE PAL-RK, ASSIGNOR OF ELETEX-TIVENTIETI'IS TO CHAXCY G. 1WRIGHT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MORSE REGISTER AND PERFORATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,641, dated April 8, 1884.

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.Be it known that I, Lenin O. SPRINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hyde Park, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in TelegraphInstruments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in telegraph-instruments for producing Morse characters by perforations in a paper or other ribbon.

llflne objects of this invention are to dispense with a multiplicity of instruments for automatic telegraphic'purposes, by providing a single instrument adapted to operate as a 'perforator and a receiver, and yet involving great simplicity both in construction and operation, to provide an automatictelegraphinstrument adapted to perforate the paper ribbon with the commonly known and usedvsigns of the Morse alphabet; to provide an automatic telegraplrinstrument with means whereby it is adapted to automatically reproduce in the paper or other fibrous ribbon at the receiving-station perforations identical with those of the ribbon in the transmitting-instrument at the station from whence they were electrically transmitted, instead of reproducing said signs in ink; to provide an automatic telegraph-instrument adapted to attain other important results necessarily following those above set forth, and involving certain details and modifica-tions of construction, hereinafter fully described. I attain these objects by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Y,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automatic telegraphinstrument embodying my inven tion; Fig. 2, a central longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3, a plan view of the same; Fig. et, a plan view of a modification of my invention, and Fig. 5 a side elevation of thev same.

Similar letters of reference i ndicate the same parts in the several igures of the drawings.

A. A represent the coils, B the armature, C the magnet, and D a portion ofthe pivoted lever,of the old and well-known Morse transmitter,I`7 the frame E, carrying the clock-work mechanism for actuating the paper ribbon, being broken away, for in my invention the paper ribbon may be actuated` by this or any other suitable means.

Lever D is pivoted at substantially its ccnter of length, so as to have a tilting or rocking movement, but is shortened as compared with its length in the Morse instrument, and has pivoted at its forward end a needle, c, the free end of which operates in coinciding perforations in guide-plates b c, secured to an arch, d, on the frame E, between which guide-plates the paper ribbon c is drawn, as hereinafter described, by any suitable mechanism for that purpose. e

Coil A is electrically connected with binding-post F, which should in turn be connected with a suitable battery, while coil A is electrically connected with a metal L-shaped overhanging bracket, G, by a helix, f, and binding-screw g.

Secured on the lever D, which holds the f armature, is a liexible metallic arm, la, insulated from the lever byagutta-percha button, i, said arm being electrically connected by means of a wire, j, with the binding-post H, and having contact when the lever is .in the position shown in Fig. 2 with an adjustable screw, 7c, in the bracket G, with which it forms an electrica-l connection.

Lever D is held in the position shown in Fig. 2 by means of a coilspring, I, one end of which is secured to an arm, l, depending from the lever D, and the other end to an adinstable screw passing through a post-supporting an E-shaped bracket, J, into which the lever D projects and operates between the usual stops, m n, common to the Morse receiver.

It should here be observed that to operate the instrument above described a key tolnake and break the circuit is' placed between the binding-post F and the battery, and that the binding-post H is connected with the opposing pole of the battery. Vfith the above-described construction it will be understood that a closed circuit will depress the armature and elevate the forward end of the lever D, which, lifting the needle a, will cause the needle to perforate the paper ribbon passing through the guide-plates b c; but as the guide-plates are so close together as to barely permit the paper to pass freely through them, and the needle and perforations quite small, it is obvious that some means must be provided for preventing the paper from tearing and the torn pieces and bits punched out by the nce' a eorrespondingly-rapid reciprocation of the needle through the guide-plates, hence causing the needle to punch out the paper as fast as presented to the needle in its passage through and between the guide-plates, and by this means I am enabled to produce perforations'in the ribbon corresponding precisely with the Morse alphabet. To produce these characters in perforations, and by the use of a single needle, it is absolutely necessary that the needle should be very rapidly reciprocated through the moving` paper ribbon, or the ribbon have, in addition to its longitudinal movement, a rapidly-vibrating one against the needle; hence I do notlimit myself in producing the desired effect to the mechanism above described.

Instead of electrically vibrating the needle, as already described, the spring-arm h, its

electrical connection, and the guide-plates b c may be dispensed with, and, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the needle be rigidly secured to a yoke, l,whence it extends downwardly through a perforation in a spring-tension guide, e, and a coinciding perforation in the lever D, said tension-guide being secured on top the lever and the ribbon passing between the guide and lever, a lateral movement of the needle being prevented by passing it through a perforatio-n in a bar, 3, of a frame, 4, in which the yoke l reciprocates, and to which is secured one or more hangers, 5,forming a bearing for a sheave, 6, having upon one end of its rigid spindle an eccentric, 7, working in a rectangularv opening in the yoke, said sheave being y 'driven by a belt, 8, passing over alarge drivepulley, 9. In this construction it will be seen that if the sheave 6 is rapidly revolved, the effect of the eccentric upon the yoke which rests thereon is to rapidly reciprocate the yoke, and with it the needle, the relative position of the needle and lever D being such that when the end of the adjacent lever is depressed, asshown in Fig. 5, the end of the needle will not have contact with the ribbon; but when this end of the lever is elevated (see dotted lines same gure) by closing the electric circuit the needle will then pass through the ribbon and puncture it in the same manner as is done by the mechanism shown 1n Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Instead of vibrating the needle, as shown 1n Figs. 4 and 5, the needle may be held rigid and the lever D be vibrated, as before described, the effect of which would be to v1- brate the ribbon against the needle and the attainment of the same practical result, or the guide-plates b c may be vibrated; hence I do not limit myself to either of the mechanisms shown and described for producing perforations of the Morse characters in the ribbon, as it is immaterial which one is vibrated or what particular mechanism is employed to obtain these vibrations.

Among the advantages of my invention is the reproduction at the receiving-office of the Morse characters in a perforated condition, thereby avoiding an auxiliary perforating-machine when it is desirable to transmit the same message upon one or more different lines, which may be done by running the ribbon from the receiving-instrument through the respective transmitting-instruments of Vthose lines, and besides this a permanent record not liable vto fade out or to erasure is obtained by the receiving-office, and such a record as may at any time be sent to distant offices by rapridly running it through a transmitting-instrument. f

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. The combination, with the perforatingneedle and a guide for the ribbon, of the lever D, the coil A A', and the vibrating arm h, said coil being intermittently electrically con- 'nected with the vibrating arm, the line-wire,

the battery, and a suitable key, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the rocking-lever D and its central pivot, the armature B, and magnet (l, of a perforating-needle directly attached to and actuated by the lever, said lever being actuated by making and breaking an electric circuit connected therewith, substantially as described.

3. The combination,with suitable guides for the ribbon, and the lever D, having pivoted thereto .the perforating-needle, of the armature, the coil A A', and the vibrating arm h, sitid coil being intermittently electrically connected with the vibrating arm, the line-wire, the battery, and a suitable key, all substantially as described.

LonIN c.l SPRINGER.

Vitnesses:

W. W. ELLIOTT, JNO. G. ELLIOTT.

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